AN IRON-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED TEABOWL

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AN IRON-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED TEABOWL
SONG DYNASTY

With rounded conical sides rising to an everted rim, covered on the inside with a lustrous black glaze streaked and splashed in iron-rust below an iron-rust rim, the exterior also covered with a matte, iron-rust glaze falling short of the knife-cut foot to expose the buff granular ware
4¾in. (12cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Compare a similar teabowl, described as Northern-type black ware, dated Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th/13th century, illustrated by Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 188. The author states that this type of ware is the "northern version of the 'hare's-fur' glaze of the Fujian potters and, during the Song dynasty, was associated with the cult of tea drinking"